Here's a few pictures of new construction here at the zoo.

We just ordered a brand new sign for the zoo and here are a few pictures of the frame that will support it. The sign frame was made from old square guard rails. They are galvanized so the frame will last a long time but it took a very good welder to secure the pieces together and a special paint that would adhere to it. Because of our long winters, I picked a bright green paint to make it always seem sunny. The last picture is the new sign just installed to help visitors find there way to our zoo.

This is our new bridge being built. The bridge is being built where the mountain slopes toward my barn which every spring would flood with the run off from melted snow off the mountain. I dug a two foot deep ditch, laid telephone poles that were at least twenty inches thick down. The poles were donated. The bridge is 36' wide and 10' across. My son Bob and I finished it 5-14-08 and  put shale up to it because the ground here has allot of clay which gets real messy after a rain.

This is the start of the first section of our new pavilion. This will house the restrooms for our visitors at the Zoo. Summer is here at the Zoo but here in Unadilla, NY, summer is short and there's a lot of work to be done before winter once again covers the Zoo in snow and ice..

 Here we are getting ready to pour the foundation that will house our exotics and in the back is the new fence around the new alligator enclosure.  Winter here at  Unadilla with all the ice and snow has really slowed down our work but with  warmer  weather now and the help of our volunteers things are really coming  together..

This is the start of our new reptile house that will be the home of many reptiles that we have now plus more will be added along.  Here is a list of a few that will call the new reptile house their home, .Burmese python, red tail boa, king snake, carpet python, gopher snake, ball python, yellow anaconda,  and Nile monitor.

 Here's a picture of our Fox and Wallaby pens.. We've just added a new top to each pen to keep them drier and to shade them a little from the hot sunshine in the summer. Around the zoo, we are always in need of volunteers to help us help our animals have a happy and safe home..

 John Williams is a student at Unatego High School.  His teacher is giving the students extra credits for volunteering to help work at the zoo.  Here John is helping to build the safety fence to keep our visitors safe while viewing our Bobcats. He is one of our many volunteers around the zoo. We are always in need of volunteers to help us help our animals have a happy and safe home..

 Brian Leizear has one day volunteering at the zoo so far for school community service credit. He will be back Saturday. He has helped by raking out piles of dirt to fill in where the ground washed out during the winter at the fallow deer pen. Then he helped me with fence posts and cleaning the picnic area.  We are always in need of volunteers to help us help our animals have a happy and safe home..

The first picture is the frozen pond which will be the new home for our capybaras.  With the beginning of spring here at the zoo and the help of some volunteers, the new home for our capybaras is starting to take shape.. The ground here is very hard and the holes for the fence post had to be drilled. Now the fence is being put up and is almost ready.  As you can see here at the zoo, we are always in need of volunteers all the time. 

Our new Bob Cats are here!!  We just got the cage ready in time but we still have more work before it's completed.  We still need to add a safety fence around their cages to keep our visitors a safe distance from their enclosure. We are also going to add a roof to their cage to give them some shelter from the summer sun. They are beautiful animals and will make a great addition to our Zoo. I'm sure they will be a hit with all the visitors.

Our new pens for our Coatimundi's are almost complete. Their new enclosure will give them more room to run and climb like Coati's like to do.  The weather here at the zoo is warming up and it's almost time for our opening. I'm sure our visitors will enjoy watching them in their new home.  Bring all the kids and enjoy the zoo.

These are a few PIC's of our new fox enclosures. The first PIC is a front view and the second PIC is the back view.  This new enclosure will house 11 fox with an area for kits.  Take a look at the third PIC, that all our fox in their old enclosure that just can't wait to get in the new enclosure with plenty of room to run a play.

 This was the cavies pen but now will be two pheasant pens. The old fox pen will be made in to two other pens, one for pheasants and one for guinea hens.

 This is our new entrance booth and with our new parking lot it's big enough for all our visitors to use without parking along the highway.

The old cavy pen is now a guinea and silver pheasant pens. The old fox pen is being made into pens for yellow and red golden pheasants.

The first picture is the start of the cavy pen. The second picture is the cavy pen before the side wire were added. Chain link is covered with sod and also cemented on all edges to keep them from tunneling out. The last picture is the new Patagonian cavy pen complete, three times as big as the old one. At the far end is the start of the shelter which will also begin the start of the muntjac pen.